From: Ron House <house AT usq DOT edu DOT au>
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Subject: Re: STL broken?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 06:42:34 +0000
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naisbodo wrote:

> > Seriously, no, that doesn't fix it. Besides, the error is not a simple
> > undeclared identifier, but a series of messages referring to lines deep
> > in the STL code:

> I myself can make no sense whatsoever of gcc's error messages.  They
> know their errors are cryptic and often even misleading, but they've
> given a higher priority to getting correct code working than correctly
> diagnosing broken code.

As far as I can see, the code is too simple to be broken. Here it is in
its entirety:

#include <vector>
using namespace std;  // Tried with & without this line
main() {
       std::vector<std::vector<int> > i;
       // Tried with & without the "std::"
       return 0;
}

> Please look at gcc's webpage and see if you should report this as a bug
> or not.

Been there, done that. Can't find anything. But it looks like an STL
error to me, because it goes away if only one level of container is
used. As for version, the version file reports: GCC-2.95.2 : GNU C++
compiler. I am wondering if anyone with access to a completely different
compiler and the latest STL might like to try the above program?

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